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No one exemplifies the strong history here better than Professor Tu Youyou. As Im sure most of you know, Professor Tu is a Beida graduate and the first woman in China to win a Nobel Prize.

She was, of course, recognized for her discovery of artemisinin, the powerful medicine used to treat malaria. It was one of the most significant breakthroughs in tropical medicine in the 20th century and it has saved millions of lives.

With its rich pool of talented scientists and its capacity to develop new drugs and vaccines, China was a clear choice for us to locate a new Global Health Drug Discovery Institute. This institutea collaboration between our foundation, the Beijing Government, and Tsinghua University will help speed the discovery and development of new lifesaving medicines.

I had a chance earlier today to meet with some of the Chinese scientists who are driving cutting-edge research. For example, Dr. He Ruyi is the Chief Scientist at the Center for Drug Evaluation for the Chinese Food and Drug Administration (CFDA). His workand the reforms being carried out by his agencywill create an environment where innovation will thrive. We are working with the CFDA to bring in more experts like Dr. Ruyi to help improve its regulatory capacity so that more Chinese health products can be made accessible to the entire world, including developing countries.

One area that China has an incredible chance to lead in is in both reducing malaria and eventually eradicating malaria. With Chinese leadership, we have a chance to make malaria the third wide-scale human diseaseafter smallpox and, soon, polioto be wiped off the face of the earth.

A little more than a century ago, malaria was the leading cause of death in nearly every country on earth. There has been great progress since then, and China is on track to eliminate malaria completely in the next few years. But more than 3.2 billion people around the world still live in areas where theres a significant risk of malaria infection.

To achieve the goal of global eradication, we need to build on Professor Tus discovery of artemisinin and develop more powerful toolslike a single-dose cure and better ways to block transmission of malaria from mosquitos to humans.

China has the potential to develop these new high-impact solutions at a very low cost that the developing world can afford. We can start today by doing the elimination of malaria in places like the Mekong River basin and in the southern part of Africa.

Drawing on lessons learned from its own experience, China can help ensure that every family has bed nets to protect them from infection. And it can help countries strengthen their health and disease systems to better diagnose, treat, and prevent future cases of malaria.

Thats health. The second area where I believe China can accelerate global progress is agriculture. Since 1975, Chinese agricultural productivity has grown at a rate of 12 percent per yearfour times the annual rate of growth in Africa.

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